My life's worst buy - Xiaomi 14
I bought a Xiaomi / Mi 14 6 months ago and the software experience has been absolutely pathetic. For a phone with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and 12 GB RAM, the experience should have been the smoothest ever. However, HyperOS has spoiled the entire experience.
I am currently on Hyper OS 2.0.6.0 and here are some of the bugs I am facing -
- Bootloops during security / software updates due to 3rd party launcher (I use Lawnchair)
- Unable to switch between apps from the recent app window
- Unable to go to recent app window with the on screen button
- Unable to see additional options in the recent apps window on long press
Edit: More issues I recalled later
- Turning on dual apps makes a dual Chrome browser without asking, and clicking on any links in other apps opens it in dual Chrome app
- They removed gestures to use long-press on home key to lock the screen to promote Gemini
I do not have any other option than to live with these issues but suggest any resolutions to these bugs. Comment / Upvote if you faced similar bugs.